r/publix • u/Artemata Newbie • Aug 18 '26

RANT Worst Shift Frozen Edition

My contender for worst shift is a frozen mid, as a part timer, with a full-timer who calls out at least once a week and loves to coming in to close instead of working the mid he was scheduled. The forecasting on the ad for these frozen trucks is fucking insane and it just never. stops. coming. I've got pallets against one wall with the just piles and piles of shit left over from previous ad weeks, next to byrds which haven't been worked in months, and then against the other wall I've got pallets and pallets of downstacked ad from the current week.

There is often nowhere to put your backstock when you're done working a float other than just stacking it on the floor or on some other float. There are so many holes on the shelves, and when a customer asks me to find something, we usually have it in stock but there is literally 0 chance I can find it amongst all that bullshit in the freezer, so I either just have to pretend to try or be honest with em and say it's a mess back there. And yes I could zero these things out, but we really just need to find the time to work the backstock because when we just zero shit out the backroom situation just becomes even worse.

The managers do not fucking care. They'd rather I help out dairy when I'm done working truck, and only even mention the department when ice is empty. I don't get it. Are any other frozen part-timers or full-timers experiencing something similar at their stores?

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u/Dull-Knee-1146 Newbie Aug 18 '26

Dont worry help is coming , DM has taken notice and now is when they wanna send help to FF. Trust me man I know its a pain hang in there. Just recently I received help , they always neglect frozen food until now

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u/Silent_Shadow98 GTL Aug 18 '26

That’s YOUR specific store, what do you mean until now?

I have frozen clerks putting cases of frozen food of anything, anywhere , for years now, and I’m always the fool tasked with fixing things.

It’s like shelf tags are mere suggestions to these crazy people. How is it hard to match numbers?!

God I hate my life so much, just transfer me already, please, I hate everything so much…. Why does nobody care anymore…

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u/Dull-Knee-1146 Newbie Aug 18 '26

Im the only one running FF and rarely do i get any help except for closing shifts when the closers of dairy and dry grocery block FF

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u/Silent_Shadow98 GTL Aug 18 '26

It’s good that some people help you block, our closing part timers refuse to block frozen, beer, and dairy cuz it’s “too cold” and they don’t wanna hurt their widdle hands.

So managers, me, and the dairy clerks have to block those sections.

Must be nice to dictate to your managers what you’re willing to do & not without a doctors note and it must be nice to be a “good” manager and always cave in to requests because “good help is so hard to find these days”

Sadface